Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new cultural preoccupation with the dramatically expanding geographical space of empire.

Table des matières

• Introduction: Terminal Anxiety


• 1: Sine fine: Imperium^ and Subject in Catullus


• 2: What's Love Got to Do With It?: Mapping Cynthia In Propertius' Paired Elegies 1.8a-b and 1.11-12


• 3: On the Road Again: Following the vias in Tibullus


• 4: Painted Worlds and Porous Walls: Propertius 4.3 with 4.2 and 4.4


• 5: Sine finibus: Imports and Exile in Ovid Amores 1.14, Ars Amatoria 3, Remedia Amoris, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Tristia, Epistulae Ex Ponto


• Conclusion: The Amator, the Puella and the Space of Empire

A propos de l'auteur

Sara H. Lindheim is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and co-editor, with Helen Morales, of New Essays on Homer: Language, Violence, Agency (Ramus 44.1 and 2, 2015).

Résumé

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new cultural preoccupation with the dramatically expanding geographical space of empire.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sara H. Lindheim, Sara H. (Associate Professor of Classics Lindheim, Lindheim Sara H.
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 11.03.2021
• EAN: 9780198871446
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887144-6
• Pages: 256
• Thème: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, POETS